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Royal Freemasons' Girls' School.
give up the old school , and to select a locality at a greater distance from London . A place was found at St . John ' s Hill , Wandsworth , admirably adapted for the purpose , being freehold property , with an excellent and ample supply of pure water . The whole expense of the purchase of this ground , and erecting a new buildingaccording to the design of the architect , Bro . Hardwick , G . S . of W ., in a substantial manner , and fitted for a first-class charity school of one hundred children as complete as could be desired , with plenty of space for recreation and exercise ,
involved an outlay of 12 , 000 .. ; such an outlay was , however , far more economical than patching up the old school , and keeping the children in a situation so illcalculated for their health and recreation ( cheers ) . So large an outlay , however , required great exertions to raise the necessary funds , and to enable the House Committee to carry out this undertaking ; but he was happy to say that last year the sum raised was beyond what any one expected ; and although still further exertions were required to put the school in the state in which it ought to be , he hoped that the Brethren would this evening show tbat their means , as well as their inclination , were adequate to the emergency of the case , and creditable to the Craft in general ( cheers ) . In the neighbourhood of the school there was a church , whieh afforded easy access to religious worship ; and the salubritv of the
situation was such , that , notwithstanding the past winter had been very severe , the children had been more healthy , and appeared so now , than they had ever been before . He thought that all that could , had been done and undertaken ; but the first year of a new house was always the most trying , and therefore it was most satisfactory to find that , as far as their own energies went , aided by the excellent governess of this institution and her valuable assistants , they had succeeded in keeping the children in such good health , for he felt confident that in every face better health and stronger constitutions were perceptible ( cheers ) . He was quite
sure that what they saw before them at this moment would stimulate them to continue those exertions , and to act so liberally and charitably as to make their sixty-fifth anniversary the most glorious of the whole series ( cheers ); for , much as he valued all their Masonic Charities , he could not withhold from them that he regarded the Girls' School as the chief , and that of which the Craft had the greatest reason to be proud ( much cheering ) . If that school failed , Masonry would be degraded , and as Charity was the emblem of their Order , he thought that the best way of showing it was in the maintenance of such an Institution ,
and he felt confident that they entertained as high an estimation of it as they ever had done . With these remarks , he should leave the cause in their hands , feeling assured that the scene before them would exercise a beneficial influence , and give effect to the promptings of their generous hearts ( loud and continued cheering ) .
Bro . BEA _ Doi ., P . G . J . AV . jthencameforward , ancl takingEllenTucker , an interesting child , by the hand , said it now became his pleasing duty , as on former occasions , to present to his lordship the girl , who had so conducted herself as to meet the approbation of the Matron , the teachers , and House Committee , and to be declared by the unanimous voice of the children to be most entitled to the silver medal ( cheers ) . This girlwhose name was Ellen Tuckercame from the
, , Isle of Wight , one of the smallest Provinces under his lordship ' s control ; on the last occasion be had the pleasure of presenting a girl from one of the largest Provinces , namely , from his lordshi p's own Riding in Yorkshire . It had afforded him great gratification to present one from so large a Province , and equally so now to present one from the smallest Province . He beggedthereforeto present to his
lord-, , ship Ellen Tucker , and trusted that she would through life be as distinguished for similar good conduct to that which she had evinced during the time that she had been an inmate of the Girls' School ( cheers ) .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Royal Freemasons' Girls' School.
give up the old school , and to select a locality at a greater distance from London . A place was found at St . John ' s Hill , Wandsworth , admirably adapted for the purpose , being freehold property , with an excellent and ample supply of pure water . The whole expense of the purchase of this ground , and erecting a new buildingaccording to the design of the architect , Bro . Hardwick , G . S . of W ., in a substantial manner , and fitted for a first-class charity school of one hundred children as complete as could be desired , with plenty of space for recreation and exercise ,
involved an outlay of 12 , 000 .. ; such an outlay was , however , far more economical than patching up the old school , and keeping the children in a situation so illcalculated for their health and recreation ( cheers ) . So large an outlay , however , required great exertions to raise the necessary funds , and to enable the House Committee to carry out this undertaking ; but he was happy to say that last year the sum raised was beyond what any one expected ; and although still further exertions were required to put the school in the state in which it ought to be , he hoped that the Brethren would this evening show tbat their means , as well as their inclination , were adequate to the emergency of the case , and creditable to the Craft in general ( cheers ) . In the neighbourhood of the school there was a church , whieh afforded easy access to religious worship ; and the salubritv of the
situation was such , that , notwithstanding the past winter had been very severe , the children had been more healthy , and appeared so now , than they had ever been before . He thought that all that could , had been done and undertaken ; but the first year of a new house was always the most trying , and therefore it was most satisfactory to find that , as far as their own energies went , aided by the excellent governess of this institution and her valuable assistants , they had succeeded in keeping the children in such good health , for he felt confident that in every face better health and stronger constitutions were perceptible ( cheers ) . He was quite
sure that what they saw before them at this moment would stimulate them to continue those exertions , and to act so liberally and charitably as to make their sixty-fifth anniversary the most glorious of the whole series ( cheers ); for , much as he valued all their Masonic Charities , he could not withhold from them that he regarded the Girls' School as the chief , and that of which the Craft had the greatest reason to be proud ( much cheering ) . If that school failed , Masonry would be degraded , and as Charity was the emblem of their Order , he thought that the best way of showing it was in the maintenance of such an Institution ,
and he felt confident that they entertained as high an estimation of it as they ever had done . With these remarks , he should leave the cause in their hands , feeling assured that the scene before them would exercise a beneficial influence , and give effect to the promptings of their generous hearts ( loud and continued cheering ) .
Bro . BEA _ Doi ., P . G . J . AV . jthencameforward , ancl takingEllenTucker , an interesting child , by the hand , said it now became his pleasing duty , as on former occasions , to present to his lordship the girl , who had so conducted herself as to meet the approbation of the Matron , the teachers , and House Committee , and to be declared by the unanimous voice of the children to be most entitled to the silver medal ( cheers ) . This girlwhose name was Ellen Tuckercame from the
, , Isle of Wight , one of the smallest Provinces under his lordship ' s control ; on the last occasion be had the pleasure of presenting a girl from one of the largest Provinces , namely , from his lordshi p's own Riding in Yorkshire . It had afforded him great gratification to present one from so large a Province , and equally so now to present one from the smallest Province . He beggedthereforeto present to his
lord-, , ship Ellen Tucker , and trusted that she would through life be as distinguished for similar good conduct to that which she had evinced during the time that she had been an inmate of the Girls' School ( cheers ) .